I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
BOYD K. PACKERIn all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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